The Washington bee., 1887-04-02

NATI( NAL CONVENTION OF COLOR
ED MEN. INDIANAPOLIS SUGGEST
ED AS THE BEST PLACE. y
Senator John Sherman of Ohio
created furo in the South. He
visited many states and delivered
many speeches. Among the many
speeches delivered and among 9th
er things he said. he suggested
a division of the colored vote. It
is evident that Mr.. Sherman, the
leader of the republican party,
wants to unload the negro and
throw the responsibility of protect
ing him on some other party.
Mr.. Sherman must understand
that the republican party has used
the negro for all he is worth; that
he has been faithful cannot be
denied.
What means Mr.. Sherman's tour
through the south? While we have
the most implicit confidence in
him, his speeches are not without
political significance. We favor
division Of the colored vote on State
issues and favor it on a national
scale should the democratic party
nominate man like Mr.. Cleveland.
If Mr.. Sherman is nominated as
the republican standard bearer,
and some negro hating democrat
be nominated on the democratic
ticket, it is doubtful whether
division of the colored vote would
be necessary or advisable.
A division of the colored vote on
the national ticket can be better
decided after the meeting of both
conventions. We know Mr.. Sher-
man to be honest; we know him
to be friend Of the race and man
of honest convictions but, the Sen
ator must be careful how he speaks
about unloading the negroes. The
Mobile, Ala, Register, in speaking
on MIR. Sherman's change OF quar-
ters because certain hotel keeper
refused admlttance to colored citi-
zens, has this to say:
A COLoRED INCIDENT.
Senator Sherman has another in
cident out of which to make parti-
san capital. 1t is not quite so dra-
matte as was his Eliza Pinkston
incident of 1876, when he was oc-
cnpied in stealing a State from Mr..
Tilden, but it is at least something
to stir the boys up in these piping
times of peace. The Boniface who
keeps public house at Birming-
ham informed some cOlored men
who came to call upon Mr.. Sherman
that no colored persons would be
allowed in his parlors or private
rooms. There upon'the Ohio Senator
paid hisbill and went to another pub
lie house, where his colored friends
could be received upon social
equality with the whites. Nothing
would have been thought or said
of such All incident had it not been
for the noisy interference of that
old carpet Dagger, Willard War
her, who has been political pest
ever since he came to Alabama.
Had Warner not drawn attention
to the conduct of the hotel keeper
it would have passed with no more
notice or consideration than is at
tached to similar displays Of indi-
vidual passion, prejudice or taste
at the North.
We take it that the prejudices
which refuse social and business
privileges to the Chinese in certain
sections of this country do not con-
ceru the vast body of our people,
and cannot justly be made to play
part in politics. There are hotels.
theatres and other public houses at
the North which do not admit ne.
groes. 1t is simply a matter which
concerns only the owners of those
houses. 1t does not elevator de-
press the condition of the negro and
does not affect his liberty.
Of course, men like Warner will
try to make capital out of this af-
fair, but the fact remains that
while one hotel-keeper refused adj
mlttance TO the negroes, another
hotel-keeper Gid not think it incum-
bent on him to deny them admit
tance.
From what the Daily Register
says it scenes that the man who